Culture crisis
Subtitle: anthropology and politics in Aboriginal Australia
By: edited by Jon Altman and Melinda Hickson
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781742232256
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Ethnology; Religion; Philosophy; Aboriginal Australians
Description: In 2007 th eAustralian government declared that remote Aboriginal communities were in crisis and launched the Northern Territory Intervention. This dramatic move occurred against a backdrip of vigorous debate among policy makers, academics, commentators and Aboriginal people about the apparent failure of self-determination. -- back cover.
Notes: Includes index.